A federal judge has ruled against a motion from the Quakertown mother who filed a civil rights lawsuit after her daughter came in second in a 2024 meet to a trans runner from the Colonial School District’s Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. The mother sought a restraining order to prohibit trans student-athletes from competing in girls’ sports. The hearing took place on March 4th.

The Philadelphia Inquirer covered the hearing. From the article:

During a hearing in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, Judge Wendy Beetlestone told the plaintiff’s lawyer, Solomon Radner, that his motion was too broad — with language seeking an injunction applying to every transgender female athlete in the nation — and had wrongly excluded the transgender student in the Colonial School District whom he was seeking to bar from track-and-field competition.

She also questioned the urgency, since Radner was not sure whether his client would be competing again against the Colonial student in future races.

There are four defendants in the lawsuit; The United States Department of Education, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, the Quakertown Community School District, and the Colonial School District. For its part, the attorney for the Colonial School District argued “that they had allowed transgender students to compete on teams matching their “authentic gender identity” since 2019, and that the policy was in line with federal and state law.”

You can read the full article from The Philadelphia Inquirer here.